No Homecooking at the Swamp, huh? July 7, 2007
Posted by Jai Eugene in Arkansas Razorbacks, Barry Switzer, JoePa, Oklahoma Sooners, Outlaw Program, SEC Coaches, SEC Football, SEC Traditions, florida gators.trackback
Barry Switzer is smiling and nodding his head in approval of Herban Meyer…Curses to you, AOL Fanhouse, because now the vision of hedonism in Gainesville is in my head.
Was I the only one to immediately think “stupid Gator”?
From the AOL Fanhouse and the Palatka Daily News, a SEC Ref is also a Gator Club President. WTF is wrong with the world? Now that I think about it, there were a lot of calls that went the Gators way last year. LSU’s Hester’s just a little short of the goal line, the blow to Chris “I scored 8″ Wonder-Leak’s head that cost Tennessee a touchdown. I am sure he never felt it, his head is made of solid rock. The laundry continues to be dirty for the Gates.. When will it be stopped?
From the Fanhouse: South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier recently spoke to the Putnam County Gator Club, as reported by the Palatka Daily News. But here’s what’s really interesting:
Introduced by Wally Hough, president of the Putnam County Gator Club - a former Florida lineman and current Southeastern Conference football official - Spurrier was careful to say that “Wally is one of my favorite referees. His crew does a super job. Sometimes they make some calls that favor Georgia and some of those teams we don’t like and we have to say something about it.”
A “national underground network” of pink pistol-packing Gators is terrorizing America. “All across the country,” they are raping young goats, attacking heterosexual males at random, and forcibly indoctrinating children as young as 10 into the Gator lifestyle.
The Gator spin on this will be like a Clinton Pardon Party, their day before the NCAA is coming, God willing. And that, I think, was the handle — a sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil (Gator). Not in any mean or military sense; we don’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting — on our side or theirs. We have all the momentum; we are riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .
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You are reaching, bub.
You telling me this is the only ref that is affiliated with a college in the division he officiates?
I know Ed Hochules on a personal level, and there are overlaps like this all over the place. They take GREAT pride, and their is tremendous peer group pressure to call a clean game.
Recommend that you complain to AOL Sports Blog…
Eh, I’ll just shine my championship rings up instead.
So you played for Herban???
deleting my comments now are we? nice.
hmmmm
“Affiliated with a college in the division he officiates?”
Not a stretch at all - the guy in question is PRESIDENT of the local gaytor fan club! “The appearance of impropriety” is appropriate here.
You make it sound as though this guy only strolled across campus ONCE to see his cousins’ graduation and only had a passing interest in the program. He is obviously more than the average sidewalk alumni.
BTW - was this guy the linesman who made the alleged TD call in the 2001 game against Tennessee where the receiver clearly did not have possession of the ball? Or was he the official who let the ruling stand as called w/o replay?
The guy that made the Gaffney call was a Vandy Alum. He works at UPS in atlanta
Somewhere, I had heard that but the specifics were long since forgotten. Thanks for the memory jog.
I still maintain that the linesman in question is/was in cahoots with the gaytor fan club president.
Conspiracy theorists unite!
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